Android: how to change dynamically the button icon color?

Question

I have this button in my layout:

<Button
   android:id="@+id/followers_right"
   android:drawableLeft="@drawable/ic_team"
   android:text="@string/visibility_right_followers" />

By default, all my icons are grey. But in some cases, I want to apply a specific color. And for the drawable button, how can I do that programmatically ?

myButton.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.tint_selected));

This line doesn't work (build error).

Thanks for your help!

possible duplicate of [How to set background color of a View](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2173936/how-to-set-background-color-of-a-view) — hata, Aug 30 '15 at 18:11
@hata I think he is trying to get the colors from the values. — diyoda_, Aug 30 '15 at 18:14
What kind of cases? Are those cases calculated or received from a server? Do those cases depend on user behavior (press, focus etc.)? — meir shapiro, Aug 30 '15 at 18:14
Can you add the code. and the build error. Can you check the import for the R. — diyoda_, Aug 30 '15 at 18:17
This code line is just an example what I would like to do : myButton.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.tint_selected)); — anthony, Aug 30 '15 at 18:19
Please, see if you can find your solution here. https://github.com/jrvansuita/IconHandler — Vansuita Jr., Oct 12 '16 at 03:54

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 30 '15 at 18:33

I tried to find a solution myself for this interesting question but I am not there yet. One work around is have the same icon in different colors as Drawable resources,

and change the icon of the button grammatically,

yourButtom.setCompoundDrawablesWithIntrinsicBounds(R.drawable.low, 0, 0, 0);

But the only issue is, if you want huge range of color chages

Android: how to change dynamically the button icon color?

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